Old Fitzroy

I walked in here off the dirty mile

Swaggered in with a prison style

Aching bones and dirty feet

Needing of a bed and something to eat

Hmm, I played for you, and I played it right

Sung in tune, and I danced all night

I looked at you as the only one

Didn't know it could come undone

Oh, I hit the road when I was fifteen

My mother died, and my dad got mean

Been locked up since twenty-one

I was my mother's only son

Forgotten most from the early days

But I remember what she used to say

"Little boy, you're my pride and joy

The only good thing about old Fitzroy"

Oh, I feel the walls are falling down around

It makes me loathe that old town somehow

I've been drinking all the wrong things all night

I've been thinking about what I got to do to survive this life, yeah